All Organic School Canteen
The Herald reports that the Crown Street Public School in Sydney is serving certified organic food to the school’s 250 students.
The inner-city school’s 250 pupils can choose from a lunch list that looks like any other healthy canteen menu, except that it is all organic. Even the snacks such as potato chips, popcorn, fruit bars and licorice straps are certified organic.
The canteen food is provide by the owner of Kawa cafe which is next door to the school.
Kawa, is next door to the school and has been sending the organic message to Surry Hills locals since she opened it in 2001. Everything is organic, from the coffee to the cakes. Further down the road, near Oxford Street, Hewitt has a grocery and takeaway store, The Goods Organic, which she set up a year ago.
A wide variety of healthy organic food is on offer for students.
Hot food, such as organic mini pies, spaghetti bolognaise and hokkien noodles with vegetables, are delivered fresh daily from the Goods’ kitchen to the tuckshop. Sandwich bread and fillings are brought up and made at the school. The kids can also choose organic pasta salad, organic sausage wrap with Nana Wood’s relish (Hewitt’s grandmother’s recipe) or the popular melts.
There is almost nothing organic she can’t source for the tuckshop, from yoghurt to chocolate milk. "Bread rolls are hard to find," she says. Most of the prices are also comparable to conventional produce, from bottled water to dried fruit. Hewitt says that with careful menu planning, "you can offer choices at about the same price as conventional equivalents". She also draws on her experience of buying organic produce wholesale through her two other businesses.
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My family and I are commited to an organic lifestyle and are reaping the amazing benefits.
At present we can only dream of having an organic meal at a local cafe and our school still sells coke and makes sandwiches on white bread!
Bravo to Crown Street Public School, Kawa cafe and all who support these wonderful individuals who are taking such good care of the planet and it’s people.
Yours in Happiness and Health
Unfortunately few schools are providing organic choices for staff and students but hopefully that will change in the future as more people demand it.
There are more organic cafes popping up around the place though, so with a bit of searching your might be able to find one or two in your area.